Famous Quotes & Sayings

People have been comparison shopping for 10,000 years,

Brittany Howard

People hear a powerful female singer in a rock and roll band, and they say, 'Janis Joplin.' I think people just make that comparison because it's easy. But I don't think I sound like her at all.

Rod Marinelli

It is a similar position, and he's got traits like Derrick -- but Derrick has been to nine Pro Bowls, so that's where the comparison stops.

just as we did in the McCarthy era, we have offset the decline of traditional forms of repression with the development of new forms of repression. A historical comparison reveals not so much a repudiation as an evolution.

It has always been fairly easy to do comparison shopping on the Web,

I was very pleased with our fight and our performance. Especially in comparison to our previous game in Tennessee.

Gross margins were flat in spite of a fairly easy comparison because of pressure from Reward Zone.

I don't think a comparison of the raw count of vulnerabilities is representative of the security of a product,

Gerry Harvey

I think the main thing you measure your success by is what you do in comparison to your opposition. If you're in an industry where you're the leader, then you're performing very well.

Jack Straw

I think you ought to say so, otherwise your comparison is entirely worthless.

Lack is relative in comparison to what others posess. All things are not equal and never shall be on this planet

Francis Bacon

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that lost by not trying.

This nation has been drifting back in comparison with the rest of the world for the last 20 years in education.

Yeah, I'd say there's no comparison in athleticism.

Thongchai Jaidee

The par-three fourth hole was the key for me today. I was putting good today in comparison to yesterday.

Bill Cowher

We only threw it 11 times. It's not like we've suddenly arrived, I don't think. Too much comparison has been made to (the preseason). I'm not concerned with that. I'm not ready to sit there and say everything is set with one game ... For the first time this year we looked like a professional team throwing the football.

Vote with your feet, ... Do more comparison shopping. Know what the fees are. Read carefully, and if you don't see something you like, go elsewhere.

While December was a difficult comparison for us and other manufacturers, by any measure it still was a solid sales month. We're particularly pleased with the recovery in our sport utility and full-size pickup business. It gives us renewed confidence as we prepare to launch new vehicles into these key segments in 2006.

Paul Cellucci

We have some significant differences on a number of specific issues. But our policy differences pale in comparison to overall scope of our cooperation,

Pierre Schaeffer

Take a sound from whatever source, a note on a violin, a scream, a moan, a creaking door, and there is always this symmetry between the sound basis, which is complex and has numerous characteristics which emerge through a process of comparison within our perception.

Peter Riegert

A movie is a filmed rehearsal in a way. The audience doesn't know that because you're taking out the things that don't work. There's no comparison to the theater because it's live. But making a movie is just as challenging and exciting, I find. A movie is pure process. The theater is the result of process.

Well, first, the situation in Afghanistan is much better than it was. But there is no comparison between Afghanistan and Iraq. Iraq has a bureaucracy, Iraq has wealth. Iraq has an educated class of people who are positioned to come in and take over.

People also like to look at the comparison just for fun.

Warren Spector

The reality, for me at least, is that the finest recreation of a paper game, played on computer, pales in comparison with the actual, face-to-face experience.

People often refer to bygone days as a simpler time. Perhaps, more accurately, my grandparents' generation focused better on what mattered. Traffic jams and minor quibbles with my husband Daniel pale in comparison with the worries that were faced on the home front and battlefield during the Second World War.

These numbers we felt, after study and comparison of what's out in the marketplace, were an equitable and fair salary,

Mo Rocca

In comparison with a lot of her film acting, it's a lot more lifelike, a lot less stiff.

In comparison to some of the private cemeteries, we're in the mid- to low-range.

Alexander Hamilton

In many cases, it will connect itself with preexisting factions and will enlist all the animosities, the partialities, the influence and the interest in one side or the other. And in such cases, it will always be dangerous that the decision will be regulated more by a comparison of strength of the parties, rather than the demonstration of innocence or guilt.

Joseph Joubert

I love to see two truths at the same time. Every comparison gives the mind this advantage.

They are much leaner than they were. But they are not as lean as they need to be in comparison to the market size they have.

There's no comparison between foreign and Japanese banks. Local lenders have too little earning capacity.

Jonathan Levine

I really hope everyone who saw 'Twilight' sees 'Warm Bodies,' but at the same time... I don't resent the comparison on a level of quality because I don't judge other movies like that. Now that I make movies, I see how hard it is to do everything. I pretty much love all movies.